> This is .1% problems

Cruises are a stereotypically mass-market vacation. In most cases they’re cheaper than a hotel.

But still, Google says there's about 30 million cruise passengers per year, or less than 0.4% of the world. Close.

> Google says there's about 30 million cruise passengers per year, or less than 0.4% of the world. Close.

By the same math owning a pet tortoise is something of a 0.1% game.

Well yes, having both the time and budget to properly care for a pet tortoise is a very exclusive hobby. Tortoises can live 50+ years, require space, a daily ose of fresh natural-grown veggies, and are prone to respiratory infections often requiring costly antibiotic injections.

Exactly. And then add to that people that just happen to bring an openWRT router on a cruise with them

> In most cases they’re cheaper than a hotel.

Eh, depends on the package. I went on a 7 day cruise. Definitely not cheaper than a hotel, given that you are paying per person. So if you have 2 kids, you'd pay roughly $850/day.

If I earned ~50 million dollars per year then I think I'd just pay for Internet.

Maybe .1% was a bad choice, should we only post articles that are relevant to people on a global average yearly wage of ~$12,000? How are we defining relevant? People earning $2000/year might be /interested/ in a thing, but not able to afford it (eg. a Mac computer or a large hadron collider), where do we draw the line?

That doesn't make it non-interesting.

Just want to clarify that my intent was not to say that internet is essential. However, I do need internet access for my job and in general, it's nice to be able to keep in touch with friends.

If you need to still be accessible to your job while on a cruise there's something wrong somewhere. I mean I guess said job must pay well, but still

My job is mostly just working on open source software, which I enjoy and would be doing anyway. I actually haven't worked on it yet on the cruise, but thought it would be nice to sit by a window and code. Even my development database requires internet access, so offline coding really isn't an option.